University on the border
Subtitle: crisis of authority and precarity
By: editors Lis Lange, Vasu Reddy, Siseko H Kumalo
Edition: First edition.
Series: On higher education transformation -- vol. 3
Publisher: African Sun Media under the SUN PReSS imprint
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Stellenbosch, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781991201348
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Higher Education; Decolonization; Enseignement supérieur; Décolonisation
Description: The volume explores and thinks through the process of decolonising the South African higher education system by examining #MustFall.

"The volume explores and thinks through the process of decolonising the South African higher education system by examining #MustFall. The text offers theoretical insights from a historical, contemporary and multidisciplinary lens, while examining the embedded meanings of the university as an institution, idea and set of practices to show the shifts and changes that were inaugurated by #MustFall along with the historicities that define the university both locally and globally. The retro- and prospective insights presented in the book surface the crisis of authority that places the university in a state of precarity, which is framed in the book as the 'border'. The volume proposes the concept of the 'border' (recognising its conceptual and analytical dynamism) as a generative space that can facilitate new imaginaries and articulations of this social institution: the university."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: CONTENTS; title: Book Series; title: Author Biographies; title: Introduction: #MustFall; title: Aporia, doubt and possibility on the border; title: References; title: 1. University on the Border: Crisis of authority; title: Introduction; title: On borders and authority; title: (De)-authorisation and the refounding of the University; title: The university is colonial, racist and patriarchal; title: The composition of the academic body reflects white supremacy and patriarchy; title: The University is elitist and exclusive; title: The University curriculum is white and Western and obliterates other epistemologies; title: Heteronormative patriarchal culture; title: The governance, management and administration of the University is fully complicit with a colonial system of oppression and not to be trusted with decolonisation; title: The University 'rational discourse' is a way of silencing black pain and constitutes an obstacle to decolonisation; title: University knowledge and culture universalises the white experience; title: The crisis of the University's authority in perspective; title: Relevant knowledge versus universal knowledge; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: 2. Gatherings of Academic Crowds as World-Historical Events: On the passage of a few students through brief moments in time; title: Introduction; title: World ordering in the long nineteenth century; title: Synchronicity in protesting world ordering; title: Berkeley, 1 October 1964; title: Paris, 10-11 May 1968; title: Tokyo, 21 October 1968; title: Kingston, 16 October 1968; title: Montréal, 29 January 1969; title: Struggles charged in the second moment; title: The present juncture; title: Protests making history worldwide; title: London, 10 November 2010 (and again on November 24 and 30, and December 9); title: Santiago, 4 and 19 August 2011; title: Montréal, 22 May 2012; title: San Cristobal, 4 February 2014; title: New Haven, Connecticut, 5 November 2015; title: Cape Town, 9 April 2015; title: Seattle, 24 May 2016; title: The wordly dialectics of university politics; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: 3. #MustFall-TheEvent: Rights, student activism and the transformation of South African universities; title: Introduction; title: Student politics and protest in context; title: #MustFall-The Event; title: Retreating rights; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: 4. Unequal Egalitarians: The root of seeing the few as the many; title: Introduction; title: The language of the many, the outcomes of the few; title: Subordinate class: The paradox of the South African left; title: The (partial) alternative of the 1970s; title: A left alternative?; title: The reality of race; title: References; title: 5. Décolonisation Destituante; title: Introduction; title: Mannoni's self-assessment; title: References; title: 6. The Decolonisation of Myself; title: 7. Precarious Authority and the Future of the University; title: Introduction; title: Anguish and the search for answers; title: Pedagogy, power and citizenship; title: Canon constitution; title: Academic freedom as the future of the University; title: References